Ghost
Wicked Bobby Bannister
The coach-and-pair rides tonight.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Chancel with Banastre's monument
- Legend from
- Passenham tradition
- Tone
- Eerie
Hooves on a stormy night.
Sir Robert Banastre (Bannister), lord of Passenham, rebuilt St Guthlac's chancel in the 17th century and was unpopular with his tenants. Since his death his ghost is said to drive a coach and pair madly on dark stormy nights, and children were threatened with him.